Director Of Projects Jobs in Mississippi

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite

Legal Entity: Entergy Mississippi, LLC

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

This role supports OpCo leadership by driving execution of enterprise aligned priorities, regulatory readiness, and operational performance. It ensures accurate financial and regulatory reporting, maintains an effective operating rhythm, and advances reliability by partnering across Operations, Engineering, Work Management, Construction, Strategic Planning, and Asset Management to translate plans into executable field actions. The role oversees regional resource deployment, monitors capital and O&M reliability work, and coordinates RSM allocation. It provides day to day direction in a matrixed environment, strengthens organizational capability through coaching and development, and leads storm response, ensuring disciplined restoration, accurate ETRs, and comprehensive after-action reviews. The position reinforces safety culture and operational risk controls while driving accountability and execution excellence.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Reliability - This role enhances system reliability by partnering across Operations, Strategic Planning, Reliability Performance, Work Management, Engineering, and Construction to advance safety, service quality, and network performance. It coordinates resource deployment with Asset Management and other support teams to ensure reliability plans are executable. Working across the matrix, the role aligns crews, readiness, scheduling, and operational support to translate plans into field actions, manages RSM allocation with the OpCo Reliability Superintendent, and monitors execution quality of capital and O&M reliability programs such as recloser installations, conductor upgrades, and pole replacements.

Matrixed Coordination and Accountability - This role provides day‑to‑day direction to matrixed partners—including Construction and Work Management leaders—by setting priorities and clarifying regional support needs. It ensures transparent, effective communication with Centers of Excellence, supplying input that shapes goals and performance reviews. Operating in a highly matrixed model, the role fosters alignment, accountability, and strong cross-functional execution.

Organizational Development - The role builds leadership capability across the OpCo by mentoring and coaching Sr Managers, developing high‑potential operational leaders, and providing structured, consistent feedback. It conducts regular one‑on‑one check‑ins to review progress, reinforce safety and productivity, and guide development. The position leads performance management by completing annual and mid‑year reviews, recognizing strong performance, addressing gaps, and ensuring alignment with expected leadership behaviors.

Storm & Safety - This role leads to regional storm response by coordinating restoration priorities, resource deployment, operational decision-making, and issue escalation to ensure disciplined restoration, accurate ETRs, and integration of mutual assistance support. It oversees structured After-Action Reviews to drive continuous improvement. Additionally, the role monitors adherence to safety standards and operational risk controls—including serious injury prevention, high‑risk switching oversight, and audit/near-miss closure—while reinforcing a culture of safety and accountability across the field.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum education required of the position

- B.S. in Engineering Discipline, Construction Management or applicable course of study or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required of the position

- 10 years plus power delivery project development and management experience.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

- Ability to Influence various levels of leadership
- Intricate knowledge of Project Management process and stage gate understanding
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of financial impacts of project plans and importance of timely execution
- Creditable with External vendor network and partnership capabilities
- Ability to track project execution and provide meaningful KPI’s to leadership
- Understanding of asset procurement and navigation of supply chain organizations and process to improve procurement efforts to meet project delivery.
- Excellent coaching capabilities at various levels of the organization

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position

- Professional Engineer license preferred
- Six Sigma or other continuous improvement certification/training preferred

Primary Location: Mississippi-Jackson Mississippi : Jackson

Job Function: Corporate

FLSA Status: Professional

Relocation Option: Level I

Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT-NBU

Number of Openings: 1

Req ID: 123780

Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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WORKING CONDITIONS:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.